Senior Technical Program Manager, Glean
$198-235.5k
4 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
Enterprise search and knowledge management
Be an early applicant
Enterprise search and knowledge management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$198-235.5k
4 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 8-10+ years of experience in technical program management with a proven track record of driving complex product programs from concept to launch in fast-paced SaaS environments
- Deep technical background in AI/ML systems, LLMs, and agents, with an ability to translate complex capabilities into practical product impact
- Strong understanding of software product development, including API design, data systems, and product integration patterns
- Ability to structure multi-quarter product programs with measurable outcomes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to translate between technical and business contexts
- Demonstrated ability to manage through ambiguity, anticipate risks, and build alignment across diverse teams
- A builder mindset; proactive, collaborative, and focused on enabling teams to deliver their best work
What the job involves
- Glean is seeking a Sr. Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that shape how our enterprise AI product evolves, scales, and delivers value to customers
- This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, design, and go-to-market, ensuring Glean’s product roadmap is executed with clarity, quality, and velocity
- You’ll drive alignment across teams, streamline execution for multi-quarter programs, and help deliver delightful, high-impact product experiences that advance Glean’s mission
- You’ll partner closely with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, Design, and Customer Success to orchestrate end-to-end delivery while ensuring technical excellence, customer empathy, and cross-functional alignment
- Lead end-to-end product development programs, spanning ideation, design, engineering, and launch
- Build and maintain program plans that drive clarity across teams ensuring transparency in scope, timelines, and ownership
- Drive execution excellence for cross-functional initiatives, balancing speed with quality
- Partner with Go-To-Market and Customer Success teams to ensure readiness for product rollouts and customer adoption
- Facilitate communication across Product, Design, and Engineering to align priorities and unblock delivery
- Proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks, tradeoffs, and cross-team dependencies
- Establish clear visibility into execution health using metrics such as velocity, quality, and adoption impact
- Continuously evolve how Glean plans, tracks, and delivers cross-functional programs thereby improving predictability and accountability
- Driving the company’s Product roadmap execution, ensuring alignment between product vision, engineering delivery, and customer outcomes
- Structuring and managing programs for major product launches, platform enhancements, and customer-facing capabilities
- Partnering with PMs and Eng to define clear requirements, success metrics, and launch criteria
- Anticipating risks, resolving dependencies, and ensuring smooth execution across engineering and GTM teams
- Improving execution rigor, building visibility into progress, blockers, and outcomes across multiple teams
- Driving operational excellence through consistent program cadences, postmortems, and lessons learned
Our take
Glean is an intuitive digital assistant which allows employees to search across all their apps and find the information and tools that they need more quickly.
With so many SaaS apps being used by modern day companies, overwhelm and inefficiency inevitably enter the equation. Glean’s search engine is proving popular for how it unifies and centralizes all these distributed tools and data.
It’s been quite a start to life at Glean, having only emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1 Billion valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status, and has received nearly $400 million in funding so far. The SaaS platform is already used by some major companies including Grammarly, databricks, and Rubrik.
That Glean was co-founded by a quartet with senior experience at Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Facebook stands the company in good stead. However, it’s the fact that its search engine is solving a new, but very real problem in the workplace that’s seen its popularity surge so quickly, which it’s likely to continue to do in the future. Its adaptability to include new AI capabilities to its platform, such as generative AI, has Glean well set to see further growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2025
$150m
SERIES F
Sep 2024
$260m
SERIES E
Total funding: $805m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision for you and yours
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- 401k contribution
- Flexible work (3 days a week in the office), though we believe in folks working where they can be most effective
- Company events, from weekly happy hours to our annual company retreat
- Flexible hours, unlimited PTO, and company-wide winter break shutdown
- Transparent culture
- Learning and development stipend
- Free meals with lunch and dinner options every day
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Arvind Jain
(CEO)Former Engineer at Google and Microsoft. Is the co-founder of high growth startup Rubrik, which delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises.
Piyush Prahladka
(Software Engineer)Prior to joining the co-founding team at Glean, they worked as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, then as an Engineering Lead at Uber.
Tony Gentilcore
(Product Engineering Lead)Former Developer at At&T and TJC Labs. For ten years, served as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, including a spell as Founder and Tech Lead / Manager of the Chrome Speed Team.
TR Vishwanath
(Engineering Lead)Before co-founding Glean, was a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook after spending eight years at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer, then Principal Development Lead.
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